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10 Dec 2016 3:40:15am

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Officials appear to have lost all faith in ability of the plant's operators, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, to handle the crisis.

A Japanese government source told Kyodo news agency that a US spy plane would fly over the facility on Thursday, in the hope that its infrared cameras could provide clues as to what was happening inside the reactor buildings.

Earlier, Naoto Kan, the prime minister, ordered officials to measure radiation levels across Japan and supply information to the public, with details on safe and unsafe levels.